Case Study in Research Integrity: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Your comments on our peer review integrity case studies suggest that you found them informative, engaging, and thought-provoking. The Professional Grant Writer and Asking for Favorable Treatment examples were in the Top 10 read Open Mike posts of 2021 and 2020, respectively. The success of the series prompted us to expand them beyond solely peer review and address other areas of research integrity. Today we discuss what you and your institution should consider when submitting the same applications to multiple funders. As always, the goal is to raise awareness, encourage dialog and inspire creative problem solving to ensure...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - June 1, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike application policy overlap Research integrity Source Type: funding
A Reflection on Impact
Some of you may have heard me quote a thoughtful essay by Daniel Shapiro and Kent Vrana (both of Pennsylvania State College of Medicine) that is critical of research institutions promoting what funds they’ve received over what scientific progress those funds have supported. The authors argue that instead of using a ranking system to measure success that favors number of grants and dollars, we should consider a new system that focuses on the efficiency by which the science was conducted and how the research contributes to answering questions that are meaningful to science.
With that in mind, it’s worth reflecting that i...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike COVID-19 innovation reflection Source Type: funding
New FY 2021 RCDC Categories and Funding Data are Now Available
NIH recently updated its Research, Condition, and Disease Classification (RCDC) system with FY 2021 actual spending data and estimates for FY 2022 and 2023. There are now 309 total RCDC publicly reported categories.
The following are new RCDC topics added in FY 2021:
Celiac Disease
Coronaviruses Diagnostics and Prognostics
Coronaviruses Disparities and At-Risk Populations
Coronaviruses Therapeutics and Interventions
Coronaviruses Vaccines
Dissemination and Implementation Research
Lymphatic Research
Lymphedema
Telehealth
Tickborne Diseases
There were also several existing RCDC categories that were renamed, including:
A...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources NIH funding RCDC Source Type: funding
Gearing Up for 2023 Part II: Implementing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Guest post by Dr. Lyric Jorgenson, Acting Associate Director for Science Policy and Acting Director of the NIH Office of Science Policy, originally released on the Under the Poliscope blog.
Lyric Jorgenson, NIH Acting Associate Director for Science Policy and Acting Director of the Office of Science Policy.
Sequels are all the rage these days. I figure if Marvel can make endless “Avengers” movies, I could start making blog sequels. Back in the beginning of the year, I wrote Part I of this blog series about how NIH is working to implement the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (DMS Policy). I mentione...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Lyric Jorgenson Tags: blog Open Mike Uncategorized biospecimen data management Data sharing informed consent privacy Source Type: funding
Congress Strengthens NIH ’s Ability To Address Harassment in NIH-funded Activities
Marie A. Bernard, M.D., NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity.
The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2022 includes “Section 239,” which is a milestone in our efforts to ensure safe working conditions for people engaged in NIH-supported research. The law requires NIH grant recipients to notify us when their senior key personnel are removed from their position or are otherwise disciplined due to concerns about harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions. This is a major step in our continued effort to change the culture of harassment in biomedical science....
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike anti-harassment workforce Source Type: funding
How Many Researchers: the FY 2021 Cumulative Investigator Rate
Our annual snapshot of how many researchers NIH supports is back. As with previous posts, the data presented here are also available in the NIH Data Book and represent awards made with traditional and supplemental coronavirus appropriations. The data are distinct from success rates, however, which are application-based metrics (see this post).
Our cumulative investigator rate is an NIH-wide person-based metric. The metric is calculated as the number of unique principal investigators who were designated on an NIH Research Project Grant (RPG), activity or mechanism, divided by the number of unique principal investigators who...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 3, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike cumulative investigator rate Funding data funding rate Source Type: funding
Reducing Administrative Burden in Laboratory Animal Research: What Have We Done Recently and What ’s Coming…
Pat Brown, Director, NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
The 21st Century Cures Act called for NIH to collaborate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reduce administrative burdens associated with laboratory animal research programs, while maintaining high standards of animal welfare as well as the integrity and credibility of the research. We jointly released a final report in 2019 outlining steps to accomplish this goal, and have since worked together to implement many of the recommendations. We wanted to take this opportunity today to share some of NIH’s progress...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Administrative Burden Animal Welfare RFI Source Type: funding
FY 2021 Data on Age at Enrollment in Clinical Research Now Available by RCDC Category
We are pleased to announce that for the first time, data are now available on the age of participants in NIH-supported clinical research. The newly available information on age adds to already reported data on participant sex or gender, race, and ethnicity.
The NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan (IAL) policy, implemented in response to the 21st Century Cures Act, requires individuals of all ages (including children and older adults) be included in our supported clinical research absent compelling scientific or ethical reasons. Recipients whose projects fall under the policy have been submitting anonymized individual-level d...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Inclusion inclusion across the lifespan RCDC Source Type: funding
Another Look at Applications Submitted During the Pandemic: Part 4
In posts from October 2021, June 2021,and July 2020, we looked at the distributions of gender, race, and ethnicity of designated principal investigators (PI’s) of R01 and RPG applications submitted before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, we have paid close attention to the well-being of the extramural biomedical research workforce, in part through our survey of institutional leaders and scientists. Others have followed preprint postings, manuscript submissions, and publications, finding evidence of disproportionate effects. Here we add to these earlier analyses and look at NIH R01 and RPG ap...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike applications COVID R01 RPG Source Type: funding
Introducing NIH ’s New Scientific Data Sharing Website
I am very pleased to announce the availability of a new website on Scientific Data Sharing. Whether you are involved in an NIH-funded project and want to understand which sharing policies apply to your research and how to comply, or you are a researcher looking to access scientific data from NIH-affiliated repositories, this site is for you.
NIH has a long-standing commitment to making the research it funds available to the public. This commitment is demonstrated through a variety of sharing policies that function to increase the transparency and availability of scientific data and resources. NIH policies expect:
The ap...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 5, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Data sharing genomic data sharing Resources Source Type: funding
All About Grants Podcast: Safety Plans for Conference Applications
Paula Goodwin, Ph.D., Program Administration Officer, NIH
Liza Q. Bundesen, Ph.D. Senior Advisor to the NIH Deputy Director for Extramural ResearchOffice of Extramural Research
As of April 12, 2022, applicants seeking support for their scientific conference are required to submit a plan that promotes a Safe and respectful Environment as part of Just-In-Time materials should the application be recommended for funding (NOT-OD-22-074). The safety plans build on our efforts promoting culture change in biomedical research, with a focus on supporting inclusive and diverse conferences that are free from harassment and discrimina...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources anti-sexual harassment conference podcast R13 U13 Source Type: funding
It ’s Not a Grant…It’s Not a Contract…It’s an Other Transaction!
You have likely heard about NIH establishing one of the most diverse health databases in history, aiming for at least a million participants. What about our search for new, more targeted pain treatments? Maybe the long-COVID cohort study? Or our cloud computing activities to enhance data access? Aside from these all being quite ambitious projects, they have something else in common. They are all supported through one of NIH’s Other Transactions Authorities.
What does this mean? “Other Transactions” are not grants. They are neither contracts nor cooperative agreements. Other Transactions are a unique type of legal fun...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike funding Funding data other transactions Source Type: funding
What ’s New with Research Methods Resources: Stepped-Wedge Group Randomized Trials and More
David M. Murray, Ph.D., NIH Associate Director for PreventionDirector, Office of Disease Prevention
When we highlighted the redesigned and expanded NIH Research Methods Resources (RMR) website last year, we hinted there would be more yet to come. We have been busy over the past several months and are happy to announce you can now find helpful resources for stepped wedge group-or cluster-randomized trials (SWGRTs) and more than 15 other study designs and methodological issues on the RMR website.
Launched in 2017 by the NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), the RMR website was developed as one in a series of initiatives to...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 14, 2022 Category: Research Authors: David Murray Tags: blog Open Mike Clinical Trials New Resources reproducibility rigor Source Type: funding
FY 2021 By the Numbers: Extramural Grant Investments in Research
Building on my 2021 reflections from January, we are presenting fiscal year (FY) 2021 extramural investments in research. The grant funding and success rate data presented here are in line with other related “By The Numbers” posts focusing on NIH’s annual enacted appropriations. Historical data may be found in the NIH Data Book, with FY 2021 data to be published soon. Spending related to special appropriations for coronavirus may be found using RePORTER’s advanced search capabilities.
In FY2021 NIH spent $32.3 billion of its total $42.9 billion appropriation for competing and noncompeting awards . This is a 5.1...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike awards grants Success Rate Source Type: funding
Strengthening Efforts to End Harassment and Discrimination at NIH-Supported Conferences
A year ago, we began requiring plans to enhance and strengthen diversity in applications seeking funding for scientific conferences and meetings. Our guide notice NOT-OD-21-053 reiterated the long-standing expectation that recipients maintain a safe and respectful environment, free from harassment and discrimination. Building on these efforts, we are now asking recipients to proactively show how they will address safety and harassment.
Conferences, unfortunately, may present increased risks for harassment compared to campus environments. Increased harassment risks at off-campus events have been linked to a lack of awaren...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike anti-sexual harassment conference non-discrimination R13 U13 Source Type: funding
